[00:00.00]Writer's Block - Brother Ali
[00:02.47]If I don't get this in one take imma quit rappin
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[00:06.52]The whole song I swear to god
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[00:08.61]I'm supposed to be a professional
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[00:10.78]I ain't trying to be one of them dudes
[00:12.54]That make hundreds of new songs and none of them are good
[00:15.00]Some of them are cool but ain't saying nothing new
[00:17.28]Running through a verse just for something to do
[00:19.72]I wanna be the cat that put the straw on the back
[00:22.29]Of the camel and send him to the chiroprac
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[00:24.78]I wanna write a line that's in your head all day
[00:27.26]Songs that make you say you never felt that way
[00:29.64]Look I'm trying to give myself goosebumps okay
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[00:32.10]Find the truth inside me and put it on display
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[00:34.68]Many dedicated folks listen to me close
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[00:37.09]I open my inner soul and slip it in my quotes
[00:39.59]Some flood the blogs some flood the streets
[00:42.09]I don't flood nothing I'm watering the seeds
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[00:44.50]I walk away from mcs offering me cheese
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[00:47.08]To author a 16 and drop it on the beat
[00:49.51]And it's not like money ain't something that I need
[00:52.01]There's a business side and I wanna succeed
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[00:54.51]Plus I gotta wife and a couple kids to feed
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[00:56.95]But if I sell my love then what's left for me
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[01:00.63]Sometimes I don't write a lot
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[01:02.47]I know some folks call that writers block
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[01:05.32]I just call it my process
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[01:07.38]It comes out when it's ready to I guess
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[01:10.04]I don't wanna let nobody down so
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[01:12.16]Here's some new sh*t you tell me how it sounds
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[01:14.80]I ain't trying to be difficult or no sh*t
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[01:17.09]It just hurts too bad to try to force it
[01:19.37]Had a week off and a short tour break
[01:21.64]I flew out to seattle to go and build with jake
[01:24.12]He give me the breaks that the famous dude would take
[01:26.64]I'm hyped imagining the magic we'll create
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[01:29.16]I love my family but damn they distract me
[01:31.58]When I'm at home someones always yelling daddy
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[01:34.51]Need to get away badly and focus
[01:36.50]But it's been a couple weeks since I really wrote sh*t
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[01:39.65]I'm strugglin'
[01:40.46]Up late hummin'
[01:41.60]Pace around the hotel the words ain't comin'
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[01:44.05]Wrote a little something threw it away f**k it
[01:46.60]Have an artist freak out moment start buggin'
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[01:48.99]Maybe it's a wash my fire's just lost
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[01:51.38]I'm probably a fraud that got lucky before
[01:53.84]If I let everybody down what's it all for
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[01:56.47]Looking at seattle from the 23 rd floor
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[01:59.24]Crack the window it swung open wide
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[02:01.37]Nothing between me and the world outside
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[02:03.73]What if I decide to lean forward and fly
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[02:06.27]They say that's the way donny hathaway died
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[02:08.77]Such a beautiful life ended in suicide
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[02:11.09]Maybe trying to write was tearing him up inside
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[02:13.65]Maybe trying to write was tearing him up inside
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[02:16.07]I swear that trying to write was tearing me up inside
[02:18.58]I bet that I'd regret it the second that I did it
[02:21.15]Wishing that instant that I could continue living
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[02:23.50]I pushed the window closed said man you trippin
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[02:26.12]Sat down on the bed and wrote this one
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[02:29.79]Sometimes I don't write a lot
[02:31.40]I know some folks out there call that writers block
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[02:34.60]I just call it my process
[02:36.25]It comes out when it's ready to I guess
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[02:39.15]I don't wanna let nobody down so
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[02:41.21]Here's some new sh*t you tell me how it sounds
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[02:43.67]I ain't trying to be difficult or no sh*t
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[02:46.24]It just hurts too bad for me to force it